TheDirtyNacho:geoduck42: The store-owner is quoted as claiming that he didn't know who Hitler was, and got the idea from a family nickname. This is India and not Europe or the US, but still.. if he's telling the truth.. wow.

It is believable. A lot of non-western nations were relatively untouched by WW II culturally speaking. As a result, Hitler and the Nazis are viewed more as historical figures rather than monsters.

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But we have our own equivalent:

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Genghis Khan was the Hitler of his time with Mongol conquests killing some 30-60 million people.

SmackLT:geoduck42: The store-owner is quoted as claiming that he didn't know who Hitler was, and got the idea from a family nickname. This is India and not Europe or the US, but still.. if he's telling the truth.. wow.

Can you blame him? I mean, not a whole lot of people have ever heard of Hitler. Up until last week, I honestly thought he was the right fielder for the Astros.

Hey, he had train schedules that ran like oiled machines, summer camps with modern shower and oven facilities, and oversaw a huge staff of bureaucrats who could tell you where anyone was at any given moment in time.

Here's the most offensive part besides the wholesale massacre of 6 million human beings and this guy's supposed ignorance of that history... his grammar. "I LEARNT Hitler had killed, etc." Is LEARNT Hindi for outright denial of recorded history like that idiot running Iran does so well by rewriting history? Beyond pathetic.

guessi'mdoingfine:Here's the most offensive part besides the wholesale massacre of 6 million human beings and this guy's supposed ignorance of that history... his grammar. "I LEARNT Hitler had killed, etc." Is LEARNT Hindi for outright denial of recorded history like that idiot running Iran does so well by rewriting history? Beyond pathetic.

Sounds like he could use a lesson in language. Either him or the reporter.

SmackLT:geoduck42: The store-owner is quoted as claiming that he didn't know who Hitler was, and got the idea from a family nickname. This is India and not Europe or the US, but still.. if he's telling the truth.. wow.

Can you blame him? I mean, not a whole lot of people have ever heard of Hitler. Up until last week, I honestly thought he was the right fielder for the Astros.

The story behind that clip is that there was a major presentation about Mein Kampf going on at the conference center shown at the time they were filming that movie. It's a really strange scene without context.

Got a pretty awesome surprise laugh on this one - there's an excellent stealh-ish zinger at the end of the article, although really probably unintentional:

After the entire article - nominally about people glorifying Hitler to some degree - the very next line is a link standing by itself, where you'd usually click for more info or related stories on most websites.

The link reads: Get full coverage of the Republican National Convention here

BigNumber12:geoduck42: The store-owner is quoted as claiming that he didn't know who Hitler was, and got the idea from a family nickname. This is India and not Europe or the US, but still.. if he's telling the truth.. wow.

Eh, the ignorance of the uneducated masses frequently knows no bounds, particularly when it comes to history in a faraway part of the world. Most Afghanis have no idea why there are U.S. troops in their country.

Is it simply too soon for a Hitler store? Is there something less evil about a guy who killed many many many more people than Hitler did?

WHERE'S THE OUTRAGE?

How about the fact that nobody even knows anyone who was living during that time?

That tends to happen after several centuries.

There's still plenty of people around that may not have been alive during WWII but have had close relatives that were.

/now where's my toga? I need to throw a party to celebrate an Empire built on lands taken by force and slavery.

Also, there may be less "outrage" over, say, Genghis Khan's excesses, or those of Emperor Nero; still, nobody's opening a "Nero and Caligula's Fine Fashions," and the only people calling themselves "Mongols" are a bunch of criminals.

Then at the end of the interview the reporter asked the store owner, "Did you eat yet or what?" and he replied, "No, didchoo?" Not, "did you," "didchoo eat"? "Jew"? No, not "did you eat," but "Jew eat?" Jew. You get it? Jew eat?

Atan:BigNumber12: geoduck42: The store-owner is quoted as claiming that he didn't know who Hitler was, and got the idea from a family nickname. This is India and not Europe or the US, but still.. if he's telling the truth.. wow.

Eh, the ignorance of the uneducated masses frequently knows no bounds, particularly when it comes to history in a faraway part of the world. Most Afghanis have no idea why there are U.S. troops in their country.

BigNumber12:Atan: BigNumber12: geoduck42: The store-owner is quoted as claiming that he didn't know who Hitler was, and got the idea from a family nickname. This is India and not Europe or the US, but still.. if he's telling the truth.. wow.

Eh, the ignorance of the uneducated masses frequently knows no bounds, particularly when it comes to history in a faraway part of the world. Most Afghanis have no idea why there are U.S. troops in their country.

Ah, the irony.

/Afghans

Not as ironic as you seem to think.

/You're Some, I'm Some

So others have used the term out of ignorance too. I fail to see your point.